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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Carter lived in Bristol for most of the 1960s. The city provides the setting for her so-called Bristol trilogy and is also where she wrote five of her nine novels. For the twenty- fifth anniversary of her death the Royal West of England Academy (RWA) celebrates her astonishing literary legacy with the exhibition ‘Strange Worlds: The Vision of Angela Carter’ offering a rare opportunity to explore through works of art the kaleidoscopic and unsettling world of a writer for whom Bristol wielded a considerable although under-estimated influence on her fiction. The proposal for the exhibition was originally conceived by Dr Marie Mulvey-Roberts an Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of the West of England Bristol. who has taught Carter’s work for many years. Mulvey-Roberts has been joined as co-curator by contemporary artist and writer Fiona Robinson RWA. Together they have sourced work which reflects the pulsating and anarchic energy of Carter’s exuberant and excessive prose. In the course of a relatively short life (she died at the age of 51) Carter produced nine novels six collections of short stories translations edited works film scripts plays and much more besides A highly versatile and eclectic writer Carter also wrote journalism poetry and radio plays revealing that. ‘I feel free to loot and rummage in an official past specifically a literary past but I like painting and sculptures and the movies and folklore and heresies too. (LL)